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Default Does this T-Mobile/LG smartphone carrier unlock code ever expire?

On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:54:21 +0000 (UTC), Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

... There was a version of the
software to unlock the old Nokia handsets via a computer cable, and every time
you ran it, it incremented the phone's IEMI by one.


??? IMEI (not IEMI) isn't irretrievably burned into ROM? Anyway the last
digit of an IMEI is a check-digit -- what you get from a valid IMEI by
merely incrementing it by one is generally no longer a valid IMEI :-) .

Cheers, -- tlvp
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